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Mitt Romney
The two columns below show quotes (left column) from Mitt Romney paired with what the science says (right column). Click on text in right column for full details.
| Quotes by Mitt Romney | vs | What the Science Says |
| "I exhale carbon dioxide. I don’t want those guys following me around with a meter to see if I’m breathing too hard" 19 November 2011 (Source) |
By breathing out, we are simply returning to the air the same CO2 that was there to begin with. |
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| "My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet." 28 October 2011 (Source) |
Multiple sets of independent observations find a human fingerprint on climate change. |
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| "Do I think the world’s getting hotter? Yeah, I don’t know that but I think that it is. I don’t know if it’s mostly caused by humans.
What I’m not willing to do is spend trillions of dollars on something I don’t know the answer to." 25 August 2011 (Source) |
The benefits of a price on carbon outweigh the costs several times over. |
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| "Do I think the world’s getting hotter? Yeah, I don’t know that but I think that it is. I don’t know if it’s mostly caused by humans." 25 August 2011 (Source) |
Multiple sets of independent observations find a human fingerprint on climate change. |
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